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In Memoriam

by Black Issues , June 17, 2004

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Walter H. Annenberg — businessman; statesman; publisher; philanthropist, The Annenberg Foundation

Arthur Ashe — tennis legend; educator; social activist; organizer, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid

Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett — educator; political scientist; administrator; first woman and first African American president, University of Houston

Dr. Ernest Boyer Sr. — educator; scholar; president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; U.S. Commissioner of Education; chancellor, SUNY; recipient, Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities

Gwendolyn Brooks — educator; poet laureate, Illinois; first African American Pulitzer Prize winner, poetry; 1994 Jefferson Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest award in the humanities given by the U.S. federal government

Claude Brown — author, Manchild in the Promised Land

Ricky Byrdsong — former head basketball coach, Northwestern University; vice president, community affairs, Aon Corp.

Joan Preston Cerstvik — operations manager, Black Issues In
Higher Education

Dr. Patrick Chavis — obstetrician/gynecologist; medical school admission sparked U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action battle

Henry Chauncey — former assistant dean of the faculty, chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, Harvard University; founder and president, Educational Testing Service (ETS); director, College Entrance Examination Board

Dr. Barbara T. Christian — activist; author; editor; educator, University of California-Berkeley; first African American woman granted tenure, full professor, UC-Berkeley

Dr. John Henrik Clarke — writer; activist; spiritualist; geopoliticist; liberation scholar; educator, Hunter College, Cornell University; originator, Afrocentricity 

Ray Davis — Washington, D.C.-area student activist; founder, The DC Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism (DC SCAR)

Dr. Harold Delaney — mentor; executive vice president, American Association of State Colleges and Universities; special assistant to the chancellor, University of Maryland System; recipient, one of first two Howard University doctoral degrees 

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